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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 234, 2021
The International Conference on Innovation, Modern Applied Science & Environmental Studies (ICIES2020)
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| Article Number | 00080 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202123400080 | |
| Published online | 02 February 2021 | |
A diachronic study of Ourika watershed land in the High Atlas of Morocco
1 Faculty of Sciences, Moulay Ismail University, 11201 Meknes, Morocco
2 Forests and Water Department, 10090 Rabat, Morocco
3 National Forestry School of Engineers, 511 Salé, Morocco
4 Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed V University in Rabat, 1014 Rabat, Morocco
* Corresponding author: elmalki.meysara@gmail.com
The Ourika watershed, located in the North-West of Moroccan High Atlas, has undergone several spatio-temporal changes and accelerated land use dynamics as a result of the interaction of climatic, topographic and anthropogenic factors. The objective of this study is to monitor the evolution of land use in the study area over the past 33 years. Landsat satellite imagery has been chosen for land cover mapping, providing a sufficient detail to identify land cover characteristics while providing more or less complete coverage of the area of action. Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper satellite images from 1987 and Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager from 2019 were used, with a spatial resolution of 30m. The images were treated and classified using Support Vector Machine algorithm (SVM) implemented on QGIS Geographic Information System software. The classification evaluation shows a Kappa coefficient of 85% and 84% and an overall accuracy of 95% and 94% for 1987 and 2019 respectively. Furthermore, the results showed a 10% decrease in the forest as well as a significant increase in the pasture, arboriculture, bare land and buildings with a respective percentage of 5.99%, 1.67%, 1.48% and 1.37% accordingly.
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